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" It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. "

Walter Cronkite

Peace

Conflict

Government

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" I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues. "

" A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest. "

" I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely. "

Walter Cronkite

Say

Matter

" I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind. "

" There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait. "

" I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms. "

" Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact. "

" We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons. "

" I'm one of the best condensers in the business. "

Walter Cronkite

Best

Business

" I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong. "

" The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends and getting along well... But it is not something that you dwelled on. At least, I did not. "

" I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet. "

Walter Cronkite

Give

" Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened. "

" I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs. "

" On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way. "

" We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me. "

Walter Cronkite

More And More

Towns

" I think people make way too much of ratings. "

" History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past. "

" I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated. "

" It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space. "

Walter Cronkite

Understand

Hard

" I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever. "

" Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it. "

" Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience. "

" I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry. "

" You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might. "

" I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy. "